CHARACTERISTICS OF LEGENDS
CHARACTERISTICS OF LEGENDS
- A NARRATIVE of human actions that are believed by the storyteller and the reader/listener to have taken place in HUMAN history.
- Written in such a way as be at least potentially real/true; includes no happenings outside of the realm of possibility.
- Legends have a specific SETTING: a time, and a place. They often include beliefs and ideas of a culture.
- Legends have flexible guidelines, and therefore, can begin with miracles that are believed to have really happened.
- Legends transform over time. Facts will change or be stretched, HYPERBOLE will enter the PLOTLINE, and colorful details will remain and/or get more colorful.
- Legends evolve over the years and are kept fresh, lively and exciting.
- Legends can be prose or poetry. They combine a real event or real person’s unusual life story with the exaggeration and heroic actions that we associate with stores of heroes and great national events.
- Legends read like Folk Tales but have a least a bit of historical truth.
- Legends are different than myths because they portray a historical hero rather than one who is a god or goddess.
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